Wwe Star Raquel Rodriguez Talks Evolution, Pro Wrestling And More Ahead Of Major Event

The past clip WWE Evolution took place, Raquel Rodriguez was still training astatine nan capacity halfway hoping to beryllium capable to participate nan ringing pinch nan superstars of coming and tomorrow.

On Sunday, she will get a chance to take sides her tag-team title pinch Roxanne Perez successful 1 of nan toughest matches connected nan card. The duo will put nan titles connected nan statement successful a fatal four-way tag lucifer against Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss, Sol Ruca and Zaria, and Kairi Sane and Asuka.

Rodriguez expressed to Fox News Digital what Evolution meant to her nan first clip she saw nan premium unrecorded arena return spot backmost successful 2018.

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Raquel Rodriguez successful action pinch Kairi Sane during Monday Night RAW astatine BOK Center connected June 2, 2025, successful Tulsa, Oklahoma. (Cooper Neil/WWE via Getty Images)

"This is simply a very breathtaking clip for each nan women successful WWE, each nan women that are conscionable successful wide invested successful wrestling astir nan world," she said. "We only had 1 Evolution and I retrieve that was backmost successful 2018, I was training astatine nan capacity center, I was biting my nails because I conscionable wanted to beryllium a portion of it truthful bad. But it was a beautiful practice of women successful wrestling, women successful sports, and women of civilization from conscionable each complete nan world.

"So, to cognize that we are capable to person a women’s Evolution 2 and person much women from our history and our early coming retired to represent, I deliberation it is going to beryllium an perfectly astonishing show. I can’t hold to spot each nan women, small girls, and nan abuelitas and tias that are gonna beryllium successful nan stands cheering america on. I americium conscionable very grateful and very excited to beryllium stepping successful arsenic a WWE Women’s Tag Team champion and stepping retired arsenic a women’s tag squad champion. That’s not going to change."

For Rodriguez, pro wrestling was successful her blood. Her father, Rick, was an independent wrestler successful Texas successful nan 1980s and 1990s, and she would watch him compete.

WWE Women's Tag Team Champions Raquel Rodriguez and Roxanne Perez make their entranceway during Monday Night RAW astatine Amica Mutual Pavillion connected July 7, 2025 successful Providence, Rhode Island. (Rich Freeda/WWE via Getty Images)

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She said that while Chyna and different female wrestlers of that clip were inspiring, her liking successful wrestling really was drawn from her father.

"There was not conscionable 1 personification that I looked up to and wanted to emulate, I mean I looked up to many. I, obviously, cherished Chyna and Beth Phoenix for being nan female that they were, representing strong, gangly woman," Rodriguez said. "I deliberation for maine and my life, I mean, I was already 6 ft my freshman twelvemonth of precocious schoolhouse and I was taller than anybody and everybody since nan young property of 4. I perpetually felt different and not ever successful nan champion ways. And so, to spot these women who were bigger than immoderate of nan men and stronger than immoderate of nan men was thing I could subordinate too. I felt very seen and very heard and truthful I ever loved watching them and looking to them for immoderate inspiration. 

"I besides ever look to my dada arsenic well. I americium a daddy’s woman and I opportunity that successful and retired he has really guided maine successful a batch decisions I made successful my life and I wouldn’t beryllium present if it wasn’t for him, for sure, and nan sacrifices he made. Watching him and his activity successful wrestling really inspired maine evidently from a young property because I person been saying I wanted to do this since I was a small girl. But moreover today, he keeps maine very grounded, he keeps maine astatine home. I americium very, very blessed to person truthful galore group I see domiciled models."

Rodriguez is simply a six-time women’s tag squad champion, 4 of which came pinch Liv Morgan. However, Morgan has been sidelined pinch a enarthrosis wounded and Perez stepped into her spot to capable successful – astatine slightest for nan clip being.

Rodriguez said she has each nan assurance successful nan world that they will take sides their titles successfully contempt ne'er really teaming up pinch each different successful an charismatic match.

Raquel Rodriguez enters nan ringing during Monday Night RAW astatine Nationwide Arena connected June 23, 2025, successful Columbus, Ohio. (Rich Freeda/WWE via Getty Images)

"It is decidedly going to beryllium a situation for us," Rodriguez told Fox News Digital. "But I look astatine nan different teams, and Alexa Bliss and Charlotte haven’t really been together for that long. So, I would opportunity they are successful nan aforesaid playing section arsenic us. Asuka and Kairi – yes, Kabuki Warriors person a staple sanction successful nan women’s tag division. They person been champions before. However, Asuka is conscionable coming backmost from injury, and they haven’t really done overmuch tag activity either since she has been backmost truthful I deliberation she is successful nan aforesaid boat.

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"Then we person Zaria and Sol and I person seen what they person been doing connected NXT and I deliberation they are doing perfectly tremendous work. Both very, very talented women, some look to beryllium a very bully relationship erstwhile it comes to women tag wrestling, but Sol has benignant of been doing her ain point and truthful has Zaria. So I americium not going to beryllium excessively worried astir their relationship and their teamwork. I consciousness for illustration they are benignant of connected nan aforesaid playing field. Overall, I would opportunity our tag matches person been beautiful even, isolated from for nan truth that I americium nan astir knowledgeable successful nan women’s tag section and I person nan galore titles."

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